Yesterday we watched the film
The Seed of the Sacred Fig by the Iranian film maker
Mohammad Rasoulof. It is a reasonably well-made, highly relevant as well as entertaining film; perhaps not without certain problems. Whatever problems the film might have are trivial compared to those of the director and crew (read the Wikipedia article, according to which Rasoulof had to flee over the border an 8-year sentence and flogging, and is currently hiding in a safe house somewhere in Germany. The man's got guts.
Tonight I started to watch the Lebanese film
Capharnaum, which looks promising. But I broke off and for some reason started to read about the French philosopher Jacques Derrida. I know little about him, though his name came up in a conversation last year regarding an incident with the feminist literary theorist Gayatri Spivak, who, during a talk in Delhi, unfortunately fell into a trap laid for her by a right wing troll.
I noticed that one of the influences on Derrida was an essay by Jean Jacques Rousseau whose title I liked, "Reveries of the Solitary Walker" - so I hunted down online. It exists in an
html version on the Australian Project Guttenberg site. So I downloaded it and converted it to epub format in Calibre. It converted quite well, so I've placed it in my cloud storage on Hubzilla (
https://labonneheure.ch/cloud/hosh8764/Reveries%20Of%20The%20Solitary%20Walker,%20The%20-%20Jean%20Jacques%20Rousseau.epub). Though incomplete, it is said to be "the most beautiful book composed by Rousseau".
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